THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



those dependent on him as will minimize the evils of his 

 withdrawal, should withdrawal be inevitable. I know 

 not how the man that has not made provision to the 

 best of his ability for the future of his dear ones, can 

 enjoy a night of normal slumber; much less should such 

 a delinquent be able to contemplate death with any 

 show of serenity. His surely cannot be the calm 

 resignation of the man who knows well how to die be- 

 cause he has known well how to live. 



But however full your provision for those dependent 

 upon you; however ripe the measure of your living; 

 however painlessly you sink into the sweet forgetfulness 

 of peaceful slumber; your withdrawal from companion- 

 ship must be a grief to those that hold you dear, against 

 which no philosophy can for the moment avail them. 

 The measure and the permanence of this sorrow must, 

 indeed, be somewhat proportionate to the measure of 

 your right-living. But with proportionate sincerity, 

 as time brings consolation and the memory of your life 

 becomes a pleasant reminiscence, will your sometime 

 companions enshrine in their hearts the words which 

 Callimachus inscribed long ago to Saon of Acanthus, 

 son of Dicon: 



"He lies in a sacred sleep; 

 Say not that men of virtue die." 



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